The slide in the Department's presentation showing the leading risk factors for disease burden in Australia was generated from the data visualisations function on the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation web page for the 2010 Global Burden of Disease Study. This interactive tool enables users to produce their own graphs for burden of disease estimates globally and at the regional and country level and also over time (1990-2010). This tool is available at: http://www.healthdata.org/gbd/data-visualizations

PHAA members may also be interested to learn that the Department of Health is funding the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) to update the Australian-specific burden of disease estimates that were last produced by the AIHW in 2007 using 2003 data. The study will produce estimates of the current burden of selected injuries, risk factors and diseases of the Australian population, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population and at the subnational level (e.g. jurisdiction, socioeconomic status, and remoteness), where valid. Results are expected in late 2015. More information on this work is available at: http://www.aihw.gov.au/burden-of-disease/